Tightening gun laws in Arizona?

“If we can prevent it and use the power of the office and the law… that’s what we’re going to do and I intend to do it," Ducey said on KTAR on Monday. "I think we need to act in those situations."

Certainly, six people might still be around in Tucson had somebody sounded the alarm about Jared Loughner. And another 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School might still be alive.

But sensibility and logic rarely enter the equation when it comes to gun laws. The gun lobby screams Second Amendment and slippery slope and Republican leaders jump in response and do their usual.

Nothing, that is.

Ducey is singing a new tune

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It's not too much to ask foster parents to lock up their guns with kids in the house, columnist EJ Montini says.

Now comes Ducey, apparently working on a plan to tighten gun laws. While he hasn’t released specifics, Ducey told reporters that he is “taking a look at background checks” and that he’s focused on school safety.

"Today, I was glad to sign Senate Bill 1266 and House Bill 2338 – two pieces of legislation that protect our Second Amendment rights," Ducey said at the time. "I have signed several other firearms bills, with a commitment to safeguarding our liberties relating to firearms."

But that was then and this, apparently, is now, dozens of dead children later:

“Our focus is on school safety and how we make our schools safer,'' Ducey told reporters on Monday. "I'm looking to keep all the guns out of the hands of the individuals that should not have them.''

Well, cue the hallelujahs. I hope he means it and even more, than he's got the political heft to accomplish it.

But you’ll forgive me if I withhold the amens, for now.

Because it’ll take nothing short of a miracle to get this Legislature to act.